Walt Disney Company Case Study

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The Walt Disney Company has been making wonderful children’s movies and shows since October 16, 1923. They have been allowing kids to dream and believe that anything is possible: With uplifting stories such as Snow White, Cinderella, Frozen, Mary Poppins, and many many more. Walt Disney also has theme parks all over the world, which includes Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. Which accompanies over 126 million people annually. Disney’s parks are the most visited parks in the world. Walt Disney, the man behind the multi trillion-dollar company, made 635 films before he passed in 1966 at the age of 65. Walt left his make in this great nation owning major companies such as ESPN, ABC Entertainment, ABC News, Touchstone Television, A&E, and many more companies across television.
Reasons for the Acquisition:
One reason why we chose to purchase shares of stock from The Walt Disney Company was because they have a promising company that shows frequent growth and improvement. Each year Disney has an increase of visitors at its parks. This brings in a great amount of money. Although, the parks a simply a fraction of where Disney gets their revenue. The company they own ESPN is approximately 40% of their company’s revenue. While ESPN continues to grow so does Disney. Disney has a return on equity that has jumped 5% in four years. They have a ROE of 15.24%. Another reason why we chose to purchase shares of Disney is because of its dividend yield, which is at 1.11%. Having a high dividend yield is crucial when looking into stocks to purchase because it is the amount or percentage that they will pay out to their shareholders annually.
The ROE as I spoke of earlier, was a crucial part of our decision. In order to feel
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...oing forward, they will keep things up on the market. Tyson has found itself in the best position of being able to grow volume and rise pricing while benefiting from decline in production cost.
Also, I picked this stock because at the moment poultry markets should be pretty smooth, considering they feed most of the world. Tyson also prepares frozen food and they produce value added foods. Frozen food is common in most food markets I have walked into, and they sell rapidly. I know I have Tyson chicken held in my household.
As of today four stock analyst rate Tyson Foods a buy and two rate it a hold. Compared to a year ago, TSN earning per share has increased 46.9%. Tyson has this trend that keeps increasing each year, and this most recent quarter has been the best yet. With the good reviews and the data I have gathered from the Internet is why I went with TSN.

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